Strong's Lexicon

H3342

H3342 — יֶקֶב

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewyeqebnoun mascOccurrences: 16TWOT: 900a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H3342
Word:יֶקֶב
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:from an unused root meaning to excavate
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:16
Transliteration:yeqeb
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:yeh'-keb
Meaning:1. a trough (as dug out) 2. specifically, a wine-vat (whether the lower one, into which the juice drains 3. or the upper, in which the grapes are crushed)
KJV Renderings:fats, presses, press-fat, wine(-press).

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BDB3682

יֶ֫קֶב noun masculine Prov 3:10 wine-vat (a trough or hollow excavated (חצב Isa 5:2) in the rock for receiving the juice trodden out in the גַּת: Benz212 f.), sometimes also wine-press (the trough in which the grapes were trodden out); — absolute יֶ֫קֶב Isa 5:2 + 4 t.; יָ֑קֶב Num 18:30 construct ֶ י֫קֶב Judg 7:25 suffix יִקְבֶ֑ךָ Deut 15:14; Deut 16:13 plural יְקָבִּים Job 24:11 + 4 t.; יִקְבֵּי Zech 14:10 יְקָבֶיךָ Prov 3:10 — wine- vat, Isa 5:2; Hag 2:16; Joel 4:13 (|| גַּת), Prov 3:10 often || גֹּרֶן, Num 18:27; Num 18:30; Deut 15:14; Deut 16:13; 2Kgs 6:27; Hos 9:2; Joel 2:24 apparently of the wine-press Job 24:11 יְקָבִים דָּֽרְכוּ, Isa 16:10n (hence Jer 48:33). Designating particular localities, Judg 7:25 יֶקֶב זְאֵב, Zech 14:10 יִקְבֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ (near Jerusalem).


יְקַבְצְאֵל see below קבץ.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

יקב (yeh’-kev)

Numbers 18:27

KJV: And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
EHCC: as the fulness of the winepress.

Deuteronomy 15:14

KJV: Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
EHCC: and out of thy winepress:

Deuteronomy 16:13

KJV: Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:corn…: Heb. floor, and thy winepress
EHCC: hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

Judges 7:25

KJV: And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
EHCC: they slew at the winepress of Zeeb,

2 Kings 6:27

KJV: And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?If…: or, Let not the Lord save thee
EHCC: out of the winepress?

Job 24:11

KJV: Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
EHCC: tread (their) winepresses,

Proverbs 3:10

KJV: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
EHCC: thy presses burst out with new wine.

Isaiah 5:2

KJV: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.fenced: or, made a wall aboutmade: Heb. hewed
EHCC: also made 4 winepress therein:

Isaiah 16:10

KJV: And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
EHCC: shall tread out no wine in (their) presses;

Jeremiah 48:33

KJV: And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
EHCC: caused wine to fail from the winepresses :

Hosea 9:2

KJV: The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.winepress: or, winefat
EHCC: The floor und the winepress sball not feed

Joel 2:24

KJV: And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
EHCC: the fats overflow with wine and oil.

Joel 8:13

EHCC: (4:13).the press is full, the fate overflow ;

Zechariah 14:10

KJV: All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.turned: or, compassedinhabited: or, shall abide
EHCC: the king's winepresses,
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